The Dickinson press., 1887-07-23
TRAINING HANDS AND HEAD.
What is Being Accomplished Among the
Youths of Hampton Institute.

Youths of Hampton Institute.
These negro and Indian youths come with
10 good background to exercise its uncon-
scious but most potent influence in shaping
their lives-rathcr the reverse is true. This
whole life must he rcformatory, an uplifting
out of dark aud undesirable conditions and
tendencies. There must he reform, not for
conscious miS,loing hut for circunlstancing,
of misfortune, and not of fault Gen. ARM
strong pupils are up ut $50 i'll the morning,
put in ten solid hours of work. manual and
with books, and so to he'd mt $50 Each hour
las its duty, its occupation, or its response
bility-and the vast machine is distinctly Il
success.
AS the negroes and Indians work s,ln by
side on tho farm and in the shops their
natural traits nrr collSpicuously illustrated.
The Indian is the quicker, the more agile on a
squirt; hut his hla,Si brother has vastly moro
staying power. Tic Indian has the moro
able and nimhle legs, hut the negro is better
developed in the chest and arns-all because
of very Obvious reasons. Gen. Armstrong
says. his best students are those who work all
day and have only two hours for study ut
night. Tho same thing made manhood more
robust in the fine type of men who worked
their way through college and are to-day
rather impatient that all boys are not put to
the school of advrrsty which they remember
with pride.
Work and an atmosphere of moral refine
ncnt are doing much for these picked repro
scntativrS of the rrl AMI black, and it is i'll
tcrcsting To discover that The day scholars
those who live outside the institution not
turn out 81 we'll. One side ut then. life lets
them down too much
The home farm employs thirteen students
all day, wtha detail uf forty five who aver
age one and IL half days Il week; It's products
are ten acres Of early peas, ten of Irish pnta.
toes, ninety uf sweet l,"tni",.S fifteen OF oats,
two of rublmg" and onions, two of spinach
and knlc; forty-f"ur arrrsar" seeded tn clover,
l6'' to corn fo,llcr forty six To rye and no
acrcs are under cultivation in garden and
orchard. The llrm"nway farm, about five
miles distant, has III acres i'm corn, forty
three in whrat lOi in oai,. eighty in clover
and 2'O in pasture,
The Huntington industrial works s-s;,w mill
and wo"l working shop where ll,0Oo, 600
feet of pine, poplar and oak, brought in r,fts
through the canal of the Dismal swamp from
the forests Of North Carolina and virginia,
have been worked up in the Year; the depart
mcnt of household work, the caring for this
great family of Coo, which offers IL field for
training that housewives will appreciate; the
'rcssmakinS and tailoring departments,
where uniforms, dresses and shirts are made:
tho printing Office and bnlcry, which hs
created n demand for rolorci printers that
cannot he supplie'l-anl whri" four years are
required fornastcring the art If houlinalin@;
the knitting room with its Lamb knitcrs, that
afford means of self SUPPORT, and stimulate
the rulclnrss that lrre work always hrgcts;
the engineers department, III" lEai;n train
ing shops, eight III all, giving Instructions in
as many trades - wood WORKING, carving,
carpntcrinG, harness making, sll~enaIin~,
tinsmitlling, painting, and blarli>ntllins, the
greenhouse and the garlcn-tinse all attract
AMI instruct the vlsior-Cor. Springfield
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